Category: Telecoms

  • Accessibility At The Top Table At Mobile World Congress 2015

    At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week accessibility took to one of the main stages. IBM, Microsoft, Google and the Mobile Manufacturers Forum (MMF) joined me to present perspectives on how accessibility is going mainstream. I introduced the session with some of the key findings from the second Telefonica accessibility report “Digitising the Billion…

  • Telefonica publishes Lewis Insight Report on Accessible Technology for Mobile World Congress

    Digitising the Disabled Billion – Accessibility Gets Personal 2015 is released today to coincide with the start of Mobile World Congress 2015. #MWC15 This is the second in a series of white papers looking at disability and the role that accessible technology and services can play in bringing the ‘Billion’ into the digital world. Chris…

  • Disability, accessibility and the emerging digital world – a personal and professional perspective

    Throughout my career as a telecoms analyst I have been using assistive technology (AT) such as magnifiers, closed circuit TVs and screen readers to help me consume and create content.  I’ve doggedly insisted that I want to live in the real world and not in a ‘blind’ or ‘disabled’ one. But, joining the Royal National…

  • What happened when a diverse group of analysts met Cisco’s EMEAR management?

    January 13 and 14 saw the gathering of EMEAR-based analysts for their annual Cisco update. Many of us have been attending these for years, so are always looking for chinks in the armour alongside Cisco’s reading of, and reaction to, the key industry trends. Chris Dedicoat set the scene for the two days of plenary…

  • It was a Great Telco Debate!

    The idea for the Great Telco Debate www.telcodebate.com came from almost three decades of participating in and organising telecoms industry events all over the world. Presenting and discussing industry topics in real time, with a live audience, is always the best way to get to the root of an issue. However, there is nothing more…

  • Kroes Goes out Blazing … “Telcos are their own worst enemy”

    No-one expected her to go quietly and Neelie Kroes, the out-going European Commission’s vice president for the Digital Agenda, did not disappoint. Speaking to the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO), last week in Brussels, she let the major European telcos have it – with both barrels … Like John Wayne in a bar-room disagreement,…